Film Studies at Webster University Library

"Critically Acclaimed"

Wide representation of animation media and styles.

Probably should be in "Other" rather than "Collections"

Notable for use of Xerography.

Bruce Bozetto's gentle parody of Fantasia.

Beauty and the Beast won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, the first animated film to ever win that category. It also became the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards, where it won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for its title song and received additional nominations for Best Original Song and Best Sound. In April 1994, Beauty and the Beast became Disney's first animated film to be adapted into a Broadway musical. Selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Step forward in motion capture technology to create three-dimensional images of characters.

Played important role in instigating what is widely referred to as the Disney Revival, as well as being the first computer-animated feature film to implement non-photorealistic rendering.

Strong influence on Japanese popular culture ("Laputa Effect").

The highest-grossing stop motion animated film ever.

Considered one of the best American animated films ever made, as selected by the American Film Institute

Fantasia was ranked fifth at the 1940 National Board of Review Awards in the Top Ten Films category.[141] Disney and Stokowski won a Special Award for the film at the 1940 New York Film Critics Circle Awards.[142] Fantasia was the subject of two Academy Honorary Awards on February 26, 1942—one for Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company for their "outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia", and the other to Stokowski "and his associates for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form".[143]

In 1990, Fantasia was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[144] On the 100th anniversary of cinema in 1995, the Vatican included Fantasia in its list of 45 "great films" made under the Art category; the others being Religion and Values.[145]

Fantasia is featured in three lists that rank the greatest American films as determined by the American Film Institute. The film ranked number 58 in 100 Years... 100 Movies in 1998[146] before it was dropped from its ranking in the 10th Anniversary revision in 2007,[147] though it was nominated for inclusion.[148] The 10 Top 10 list formed in 2008 placed Fantasia fifth under Animation.[146]

In 2008, the American Film Institute named it the 10th greatest animated film ever made as part of their 10 Top 10 lists

Multiple Award Winner

In June 2011, TIME named it one of "The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films

Miyazaki's best, a cultural icon with a huge cult following.

Many film historians consider this to be the film that most closely approaches technical perfection of all the Disney animated features. Pinocchio was a groundbreaking achievement in the area of effects animation, giving realistic movement to vehicles, machinery and natural elements such as rain, lightning, smoke, shadows and water. In 1994, Pinocchio was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Pocahontas became the first Native American Disney Princess and the first woman of color to be the lead character in a Disney film.

In 2009, Ponyo won five awards at the 8th annual Tokyo Anime Awards. The awards included "Anime of the year" and "Best domestic feature". Miyazaki received the award for best director and best original story, and Noboru Yoshida received the award for best art direction.[49]

The film won the awards for Animation of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Music at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize

Ratatouille won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 80th Academy Awards and was nominated for four others: Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Original Screenplay. Voted one of the 100 greatest motion pictures of the 21st century by a 2016 poll of international critics conducted by BBC.

The film has also served as a major influence on animators and directors worldwide, most notably Pixar director John Lasseter.

The film's success helped establish DreamWorks Animation as a prime competitor to Pixar in feature film computer animation. Shrek itself has noticeably influenced the current generation of mainstream animated films.

At the 11th Academy Awards, producer Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar, and the film was nominated for Best Musical Score the year before. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The American Film Institute ranked it among the 100 greatest American films, and also named the film as the greatest American animated film of all time in 2008. Disney's take on the fairy tale has had a significant cultural impact, resulting in popular theme park attractions, a video game, and a Broadway musical.

The highest-grossing film in Japanese history with a ¥30.4 billion total. Spirited Away received universal acclaim, and is frequently ranked among the greatest animated films of all time.[9][10][11] It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards,[12] making it the first (and so far only) hand drawn and non-English language animated film to win such award; the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival, tied with Bloody Sunday; and is in the top 10 on the British Film Institute's list of "Top 50 films for children up to the age of 14".[13]

In 2016, it was voted the fourth best film of the 21st century as picked by 177 film critics from around the world, making it the highest ranking animated film on the list.[14] It was also named the second "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far" i

The first entirely animated film to win the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

This was the first feature-length film made in the United States, possibly the world, to feature model animation as the primary special effect, or stop motion animation in general. In 1998, The Lost World was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry

Listed in the 2006 Guinness World Book of Records as the first all-digital capture film.

Toy Story had a large impact on the film industry with its innovative computer animation. After the film's debut, various industries were interested in the technology used for the film. Graphics chip makers desired to compute imagery similar to the film's animation for personal computers; game developers wanted to learn how to replicate the animation for video games; and robotics researchers were interested in building artificial intelligence into their machines that compared to the film's lifelike characters.[122] Various authors have also compared the film to an interpretation of Don Quixote as well as humanism.[123][124] In addition, Toy Story left an impact with its catchphrase "To Infinity and Beyond", sequels, and software, among others. In 2005 (10 years after its theatrical release), the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress, one of only six films to be selected in its first year of eligibility

The film also topped Time's list of the "Best Movies of the Decade",[6] and in 2016 was voted 29th among 100 films considered the best of the 21st century by 117 film critics from around the world.

Critics have hailed Cowboy Bebop as a masterpiece and frequently cite it as one of the greatest anime titles of all time. Credited with helping to introduce anime to a new wave of Western viewers in the early 2000s, Cowboy Bebop has also been labelled a gateway series for the medium as a whole.

The Duffer Brothers have cited Elfen Lied as an influence on the 2016 television show Stranger Things. They said that Elfen Lied was like an "ultraviolent E.T." and noted that the character Eleven was inspired by the anime. The Duffer Brothers also cited the influence of Akira, which in turn had influenced Elfen Lied.

In 2009, it was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, the first time an animated series was nominated for the award since The Flintstones in 1961

Multiple award winner including many Emmys.

Prime players in the massively influential Hanna Barbera stable.

Won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

An apparently amateur creation from a kindergarten class with animated children's art.

Of great historic value, includes interviews with animators of the time who contributed.

Everything Will Be OK won the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Jury Award in Short Filmmaking, a prize rarely bestowed on an animated film. To date it has won 40 awards, including the Grand Jury Award for Best Film at the London International Animation Festival and the Lawrence Kasdan Award for Narrative Film from the Ann Arbor Film Festival

Academy award winning film by Aleksandr Petrov, using difficult technique, pastel oil paintings on glass, mastered by only a handful of animators in the world.

One of Portugal's most acclaimed animated films, Pessoa's drawings were transferred to glossy paper, brushed with India ink, scratched with a blade to give the effect of an engraving, then photographed.